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<blockquote data-quote="norswede" data-source="post: 54089663" data-attributes="member: 244387"><p>First of all, I guess I will explain what happened when I became a Christian. After I gave my life to God with all my heart, I was filled with a peace I have never felt before. My fear also completely dissapeared. I used to be terrified by what was going on in the world but after I received the Holy Spirit, my fear was gone. I also received a special gift from God when I was born again (meaning when I accepted Jesus as my savior and Lord over my life and recieved the Holy Spirit) I am able to ask God a question concerning my life and (If it is a serious question, not something trivial) a verse comes to mind and when I look it up, it answers my question. I also have very vivid dreams in which I talk to Jesus personally, although this has only happened twice in my life. It is also true that those who are truly born again, are guided in a very powerful way in different directions in their lives by the Holy Spirit. I would probably describe it as a thought that just won't go away along with a feeling of peace and excitement at the same time (knowing that it will all work out and excitement about accomplishing it) Anytime I have had this feeling, I not only accomplished the goal I was led towards, I accomplished it almost miraculously. A few examples would be, A few years ago, we were going through a really hard time financially and had under $100 left in the bank to buy groceries for the last 2 weeks of the month. We have 2 children and were terrified. We were walking to the store to buy as many groceries as we could and we found a gift card to Safeway on the ground (I don't know if you have a Safeway in the states but it's a grocery store we have here in Canada) It had $500 on it. There was no name on it so there was no way of verifying who it belonged to so we kept it and it got us through the rest of the month as well as a week into the following month. Another example happened more recently. I didn't finish high school and my marks weren't very good so I never went to College. Just recently I got a strong feeling that it was time to go back to school. When I heard that I had to pass an accuplacer exam to get into my course, I almost gave up but that feeling kept pulling at me to do it, so I gave it a try and I still can't believe how well I did. I only needed to land in the 50th percentile in order to pass but instead, I was in the 98th percentile on the first part of the test and the 99th percentile on the second. Everything just came to me as if I had always known it. Part of it was from studying. I studied Math online, a subject I had failed miserably in school and found that it was coming so easily to me. The english portion was impossible to study for because most of it was reading comprehension. I had always been decent at most areas of English but I hated reading comprehension. But when I took the test, all the answers seemed like common sense to me and I almost fell over when I found out my test results. But probably the Biggest miracle that has happened in my life was when I quit smoking. I had struggled with it for over 10 years and then in July of 2008, I decided that it was the biggest thing in my life that was keeping me from following God so I prayed for him to help me quit and a few days after I had a horrible cold and I coughed everytime I tried to smoke and when the cold was gone, I no longer had cravings and haven't smoked since. These are just some of the reasons why I KNOW without a doubt that God is real and is guiding my life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norswede, post: 54089663, member: 244387"] First of all, I guess I will explain what happened when I became a Christian. After I gave my life to God with all my heart, I was filled with a peace I have never felt before. My fear also completely dissapeared. I used to be terrified by what was going on in the world but after I received the Holy Spirit, my fear was gone. I also received a special gift from God when I was born again (meaning when I accepted Jesus as my savior and Lord over my life and recieved the Holy Spirit) I am able to ask God a question concerning my life and (If it is a serious question, not something trivial) a verse comes to mind and when I look it up, it answers my question. I also have very vivid dreams in which I talk to Jesus personally, although this has only happened twice in my life. It is also true that those who are truly born again, are guided in a very powerful way in different directions in their lives by the Holy Spirit. I would probably describe it as a thought that just won't go away along with a feeling of peace and excitement at the same time (knowing that it will all work out and excitement about accomplishing it) Anytime I have had this feeling, I not only accomplished the goal I was led towards, I accomplished it almost miraculously. A few examples would be, A few years ago, we were going through a really hard time financially and had under $100 left in the bank to buy groceries for the last 2 weeks of the month. We have 2 children and were terrified. We were walking to the store to buy as many groceries as we could and we found a gift card to Safeway on the ground (I don't know if you have a Safeway in the states but it's a grocery store we have here in Canada) It had $500 on it. There was no name on it so there was no way of verifying who it belonged to so we kept it and it got us through the rest of the month as well as a week into the following month. Another example happened more recently. I didn't finish high school and my marks weren't very good so I never went to College. Just recently I got a strong feeling that it was time to go back to school. When I heard that I had to pass an accuplacer exam to get into my course, I almost gave up but that feeling kept pulling at me to do it, so I gave it a try and I still can't believe how well I did. I only needed to land in the 50th percentile in order to pass but instead, I was in the 98th percentile on the first part of the test and the 99th percentile on the second. Everything just came to me as if I had always known it. Part of it was from studying. I studied Math online, a subject I had failed miserably in school and found that it was coming so easily to me. The english portion was impossible to study for because most of it was reading comprehension. I had always been decent at most areas of English but I hated reading comprehension. But when I took the test, all the answers seemed like common sense to me and I almost fell over when I found out my test results. But probably the Biggest miracle that has happened in my life was when I quit smoking. I had struggled with it for over 10 years and then in July of 2008, I decided that it was the biggest thing in my life that was keeping me from following God so I prayed for him to help me quit and a few days after I had a horrible cold and I coughed everytime I tried to smoke and when the cold was gone, I no longer had cravings and haven't smoked since. These are just some of the reasons why I KNOW without a doubt that God is real and is guiding my life. [/QUOTE]
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